22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
6:27 a.m.
The moment anyone wants to deal outside of Ebay and wants Western Union,
simply forward the email to Ebay and report them, the only reason any
seller wants to do this is:
Keep their feedback clean
You deal outside of Ebay, they can't help you
Western Union doesn't require any validated bank account information,
anyone with a fake ID can go up and pick up the money and then... they
are GONE!!!
Curt
Jack Rubin wrote:
I exchanged several emails today with an eBay seller
offering an Altair
system with disk drive for a starting bid of $2 in a one-day auction.
This is a bogus offer - I became uneasy when the seller solicited an
offline offer in response to a query about shipping but insisted on
payment through Western Union rather than PayPal, even though the
orginal auction listed PayPal as a preferred option.
It is interesting to note that the auction I saw this morning (offered
by seller DOCHANDS) was cancelled by eBay almost immediately but the
_identical_ auction (same pictures and extensive text) is currently
(2/21/06 @ 11:31 pm) being offered by two different sellers - as auction
6038449898 by GUNDAN760 and as auction 6038549050 by SHARISINA. It looks
like the "seller" is hijacking legitimate eBay accounts to use as bogus
fronts for his dealings.
Caveat emptor.
Jack
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